2026Edition · Command Kit · 3 documents
The Passage Planning Command KitCoastal, Offshore & the Night Watch
The complete passage cluster: coastal float plan, offshore planning workbook, watchkeeping roster and night log. 114 pages + 9-page Kit Guide.
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Coastal Passage & Float Plan
Gates & clearances
Offshore Passage Planning Workbook
Noon to noon
Watchkeeping Roster & Night Passage Log
Competence by person
- documents
- 3
- pages
- 114
- live fields
- 3,203
- models
- 18
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Technical specification
- Documents
- 3
- Size
- 114 pages, 3,203 fields, 18 models
- Formats
- Fillable and Pencil & Print, each in A4 and US Letter
- Calculated in
- Adobe Acrobat Reader on computer, iPhone and Android
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For the careful buyer
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5 sections · about 4 minutes · the full brief, nothing held back
01In shortA limit agreed in the cockpit at breakfast is a decision.1 min
A limit agreed in the cockpit at breakfast is a decision. The same limit at midnight in a rising sea is a negotiation.
Passage planning fails in three predictable places: the source nobody wrote the time of, the decision nobody made ashore, and the watch nobody was competent to stand. The Passage Planning Command Kit is the whole cluster bought at once, coastal, offshore, and the hours in between.
What is in the kit
The plan, the reality, and the clock
- Coastal Passage & Float Plan, a twenty-line source register, twelve legs with tidal gates, your own limits, and a detachable shore copy, 40 pages
- Offshore Passage Planning Workbook, fourteen dated routing reviews, consumables at a rate you measured, and the watch and sleep record, 39 pages
- Watchkeeping Roster & Night Passage Log, competence mapped against every slot, so the hours with nobody able to reef show as a zero, 35 pages
02Why the three together beat the three apartThe limits page in the coastal plan and the heavy-weather decisions in the offshore workbook are the same mechanism at two scales,…1 min
The limits page in the coastal plan and the heavy-weather decisions in the offshore workbook are the same mechanism at two scales, both written ashore, both with a column recording where the figure came from. The roster then shows, hour by hour, who is awake to deliver them at three in the morning. One document sets the plan, one sets the reality, one covers the clock.
03Where to start, by the passage aheadA first passage beyond familiar water.1 min
A first passage beyond familiar water. The coastal plan, and the limits page before the legs. Writing your own limits with the crew at the pontoon is the single most useful hour in this kit.
A crew you have never sailed with. The competence matrix, ashore, before the roster. A hole found in a marina is a teaching job; the same hole found at sea is a different kind of night.
A first ocean crossing. The offshore workbook, starting at the insurance lines on the reference page. Named latitudes and date windows are discovered late by most owners, and late is expensive.
The rule every document in the kit obeys
Not one published wind speed, sea state, visibility minimum, under-keel margin, heavy-weather tactic or watch system anywhere in 114 pages + 9-page Kit Guide. A printed limit would be read as permission, and no document can know your boat, your crew, your coast, or the state any of them are in this morning. You write your own, dated, with a column recording the source.
04What you receiveEvery figure, edition and format, in one table.1 min
| Kit reference | AML-KIT-PASS |
| Documents | 3, the complete Passage Planning cluster |
| Extent | 114 pages across the three documents, plus the 9-page Kit Guide |
| Interactivity | 3,203 live PDF form fields across the three documents, plus 269 in the Kit Guide; results calculated in Adobe Acrobat Reader on computer, iPhone and Android |
| Models | 18 navigational and reduction models |
| Files | 17: a Start here page, then the three documents and the Kit Guide, each Fillable and Pencil & Print, in A4 and US Letter |
| Kit Guide | Included: the order of work across the three records, and every task before departure on one page, dated and sorted for you in Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| Which file to open | Fillable in Adobe Acrobat Reader or Apple Files; Pencil & Print in GoodNotes, Notability or on paper; A4 or US Letter by the paper you print on |
| Tested in | Adobe Acrobat Reader on Mac, iPhone and Android, Apple Files, GoodNotes, Notability |
| Offline | No app, no account, no connection required once downloaded |
As a kit, the three documents cost less than bought one at a time (the price block on this page works out the exact figures from current prices), and the plan, the reality and the clock finally agree with each other.
05What it is notThese documents teach no navigation, no collision avoidance and no seamanship.1 min
These documents teach no navigation, no collision avoidance and no seamanship. They are not a substitute for training, and they do not relieve the person in charge of the vessel of a judgement that is theirs alone.
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2026 Edition, Revision 2.1, AML-KIT-PASS. Apex Marine Labs designs the organisational process behind good seamanship.
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Questions
Before you buy the Passage Planning Command Kit
The five questions asked about every document, answered for this kit.
Which file do I open first?
Open the Start here page, then the Kit Guide: it sets the order of work across the three records. Every document and the Kit Guide come in two editions, each in A4 and US Letter. Type in Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free, or write by hand in GoodNotes, Notability or on paper.
Does it calculate on iPhone or Android?
Yes. In Adobe Acrobat Reader on iPhone or Android every document in the kit calculates as it does on a computer, and the Kit Guide sorts every task before departure for you. Entries are saved into the files: no app of ours, no account, no connection.
What does it deliberately not contain?
Navigation teaching. The three documents teach no navigation, collision avoidance or seamanship, and do not relieve the person in charge of a judgement that is theirs alone.
Does the kit suit a power boat?
Yes. The coastal plan and the offshore workbook are written for sail or power, and the watch roster suits any vessel on an overnight passage.
A4 or US Letter?
Both, for every file in the kit, in both editions. Choose by the paper you print on: A4 in Australia, New Zealand and Europe, US Letter in the United States and Canada. The pages and fields are the same in each.
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